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Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

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People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

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When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there's no end to it.

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If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

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The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

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There is no graceful way to carry hatred.

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